Boosting spin-caloritronic effects by attractive correlations in molecular junctions
In nanoscopic systems quantum confinement and interference can lead to an enhancement of thermoelectric properties as compared to conventional bulk materials. For nanostructures, such as molecules or quantum dots coupled to external leads, the thermoelectric figure of merit can reach or even exceed unity. Moreover, in the presence of external magnetic field or when the leads are ferromagnetic, an applied temperature gradient can generate a spin voltage and an associated spin current flow in the system, which makes such nanostructures particularly interesting for future thermoelectric applications. In this study, by using the numerical renormalization group method, we examine the spin-dependent thermoelectric transport properties of a molecular junction involving an orbital level with attractive Coulomb correlations coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We analyze how attractive correlations affect the spin-resolved transport properties of the system and find a nontrivial dependence of the conductance and tunnel magnetoresistance on the strength and sign of those correlations. We also demonstrate that attractive correlations can lead to an enhancement of the spin thermopower and the figure of merit, which can be controlled by a gate voltage.
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2016 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:6 |
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Scientific reports - 6(2016) vom: 25. Jan., Seite 19236 |
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Englisch |
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Weymann, Ireneusz [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 12.07.2016 Date Revised 22.04.2019 published: Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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